Committing legal murder

The Oct. 23 headline, "Death penalty back on track" is a chilling reminder of just how far Tennessee, which prides itself on its Christian values, has yet to go to achieve the status of civilized state.

Again the question is not do we commit legal murder, but how we do it! The death penalty has been proven, again and again, to be ineffective as a deterrent to crime, disproportionately applied to minorities and expensive to administer. It is, or should be, morally indefensible to a Christian populace.

To my knowledge, there have never been any amendments made to the Sixth Commandment, "Thou shalt not kill"!

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Committing legal murder

The Oct. 23 headline, 'Death penalty back on track' is a chilling reminder of just how far Tennessee, which prides itself on its Christian values, has yet to go to achieve the status of civilized